Law Will Let Afghan Husbands Starve Wives Who Withhold Sex

[tekisui]

Source: The Independent

An Afghan law which legalised rape has been sent back to parliament with a clause letting husbands starve their wives if they refuse to have sex.

President Hamid Karzai ordered a review of the legislation after The Independent revealed that it negated the need for consent within marriage.

President Barack Obama described it as "abhorrent", Gordon Brown said Britain would "not tolerate" it, and other Nato countries threatened to withdraw their troops unless the legislation was drastically re-written.

The amendments were passed to the cabinet this week and signed by Mr Karzai on Wednesday, Human Rights Watch said last night.

The women's rights activist Wazhma Frough, who was involved in the review, said that conservative religious leaders had pressured the Justice Ministry to keep many of the most controversial clauses.

"There have been a few little changes, but they are not enough," she said. "For example, if the wife doesn't accept her husband's sexual requirements then he can deny her food."

According to civil society groups, the law, which regulates the personal affairs of Afghanistan's minority Shia community, still includes clauses which allow rapists to marry their victims as a way of absolving their crime and it tacitly approves child marriage. The law sparked riots in Kabul. Hundreds of Shia women took to the streets in protest. They were attacked by mobs of angry men who launched counter demonstrations outside the capital's largest Shia madrassa.

It is due to be ratified by parliament, which first passed the legislation in March with hardly any debate.

more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/law-will-let-afghan-husbands-starve-wives-who-withhold-sex-1740229.html

[Soylent Brice]

1. K&R

unfuckingbelievable.

[lunatica]

2. I've often believed that this was the way cavemen acted

I'm sure girls were routinely raped. But you'd think people who live by Islamic law would be better than cavemen. Karzai is a brute.

[Horse with no Name]

4. Yeah but he is OUR brute

:(

[valerief]

8. I'm sure not just girls. nt

[Stevenmarc]

3. It's going to be hard to deny her food since she's the one doing the cooking.

[LeftinOH]

5. Western women were better off 100 years ago then Afghan women are today -incredible.

[liberalla]

6. Sure. That's the ticket...

hunger and weakness always makes me horny as hell.

:wtf:

[lunatica]

7. Women get horny?

Well in that case let's cut that clit right off!!

[Solly Mack]

9. K&R

[seabeyond]

10. so since cant prove if a woman is withholding or not... legal to just starve wife and

commit murder.

[femrap]

11. Can we arm the women

now? I truly see no other way. Explain if you do.

[Stinky The Clown]

12. So this is fait accompli ..... now what ought we do?

Declare war?

Sanctions?

CIA destabilization?

Beg the Taliban to become nicer?

Really .... what can any western country do?

Gordon Brown (the genius) suggests he will withdraw forces? Hahahaha. Isn't that a reward?

[chill_wind]

13. Very good questions.